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The benefits of sleeping during work hours

16.08.2002

A study on sleep during working hours was carried out by physiologists from Harvard University.

A group of 30 volunteers were asked four times a day - at 9 am, at noon, at 4 and 7 pm - to find an inconspicuous detail in a drawing on a computer screen, the position of which changed each time. Ten test subjects did not sleep all day, and by the evening the detection of the desired part had slowed down by 52 percent. The other ten were allowed to sleep for half an hour at two in the afternoon. Their reaction time did not increase in the evening. Ten more slept in the middle of the day for an hour - their results improved by the evening.

A dozen more volunteers were invited, they were not allowed to sleep, but simply to rest. It did nothing to increase their vigilance. Scientists have found a theoretical explanation for such results. Our ancestors, primates, inhabitants of hot tropical countries, are mainly crepuscular animals, they are especially active at dusk, in the evening and in the early morning. And in the middle of the day, at the hottest time, they sleep under the canopy of dense crowns.

So, demand from your superiors to start a dormitory at work and increase the lunch break by an hour.

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